There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

Alexander Payne

Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

Gabrielle Reece

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Kristen Wiig

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

Ernst Zundel

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Marcellinus Ammianus

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

William Wordsworth

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Aldous Huxley

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

Earl Camden

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Oscar Wilde